Quote #60
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
More from Oscar Wilde
- When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them.
- The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
- Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
- Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion…
- Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
- Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
- A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that t…